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Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker

From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery

Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

Liz Cheney on Good Citizen

From: Madison Brown

Liz Cheney shares the enthralling details from her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, of defending the Constitution while inside the Cap...

Inauguration Day

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Pomp, circumstance and 35 words can transform a person into a president.

SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: Victoria, TX - A Town Like Yours

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

Join host Eddie Robinson for a special edition of I SEE U, featuring award-winning director, Li Lu with her latest PBS docu-series, “A Town Called ...

Bought by KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW, KUNM, and KICI Iowa City

World in Progress 21/09/23

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead. Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...

Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

Democratizing Democracy: Redistricting by the People

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE

Tamara Payne on Les Payne’s THE DEAD ARE ARISING (Re-Broadcast)

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

For Black History Month, we air our conversation with Tamara Payne about her late father Les Payne’s acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are...

Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9

A History of Traditional Root Healing

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Left is a Mullein Plant and the author Michele Elizabeth Lee , Credit: Photo by Anita Johnson

In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...

Bought by KVNF, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer

AOC & Noam Chomsky: The Way Forward

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN

Episode 4: On The Death Penalty - The Unexpected Messenger

From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative

Over the past decade, support for the death penalty has plummeted. In this episode, we look at why this happened and how one unexpected messenger, ...

Episode 2: On Poverty - The Power of The Camera

From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative

Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign took over a portion of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Their aim: change how Americans understand ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.

Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

Bought by RADIOLEX

Democracy: A National Temperature Check

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK

Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...

Bought by RADIOLEX

Margaret Bourke-White’s Focus on Apartheid: The Remix Edition

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and RADIOLEX

Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, and KWMR

WorldCanvass: Gandhi at 150

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most original, impactful, and complex figures of the 20th century. Revered around the world for his activism, self-s...

Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

Writing Radicals: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath

Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...

Pandemic Economics: Robert Reich, Esteban Kelly, Mary Kay Henry, Stephanie Kelton

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR

One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps (ENCORE)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...

National Writers Series: Bob Giles

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three

Cynthia Canty talks with journalist Bob Giles, author of "When Truth Mattered."

Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WNMU-FM, and Michigan Radio

Spotlight on "Jimmy Carter-Rock 'n' Roll President" Documentary

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...

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